http://oaklandnorth.net North Oakland News, Food, Art and Events Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:55:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Oakland North (www.OaklandNorth.net) is a hyperlocal news site covering politics, crime, events, arts and entertainment in Oakland, California. Our Oakland North Radio podcast offers free, downloadable audio stories covering the local community. Oakland North is a project of U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and our audio podcasts are produced in cooperation with the school's radio program. With support from the Ford Foundation, graduate student reporters at the school are creating focused news outlets to concentrate on different parts of the Bay Area. You can find our sister sites, covering San Francisco's Mission District and the city of Richmond, California at www.MissionLocal.org and www.RichmondConfidential.org. Our goals are to improve local coverage, experiment with online and digital media, and listen to you -- about the stories and features that most interest you, the issues that concern you, the information services you want, and the reporting you’d like to see undertaken in your own community. Please feel free to contact us at staff@oaklandnorth.net. Happy listening! Oakland North no Oakland North staff@oaklandnorth.net staff@oaklandnorth.net (Oakland North) Oakland North oakland, california, food, bikes http://oaklandnorth.net/wp-content/themes/oaklandnorth/images/itms/oaklandnorth-itms.jpg http://oaklandnorth.net/category/people/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/06/14/until-organs-go-silent/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/06/14/until-organs-go-silent/#comments Fri, 14 Jun 2013 23:55:11 +0000 Aaron Mendelson http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=96964 Bob Schleicher has been repairing Hammond organs and Leslie speakers in Oakland for nearly five decades--and he's one of the best at what he does. Something magical happens when you plug in a Leslie speaker to a Hammond organ, he says.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/06/14/until-organs-go-silent/feed/ 2 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/29/what-it-really-means-to-move-a-body-at-mountainview-cemetery/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/29/what-it-really-means-to-move-a-body-at-mountainview-cemetery/#comments Wed, 29 May 2013 16:30:27 +0000 Madeleine Thomas http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=94995 At more than 226 acres, Oakland's Mountain View Cemetery is a final resting place for some of the Bay Area's most notable figures. And docents there are uncovering new and interesting tombstones all the time, helping to piece together Oakland's rich history. Madeleine Thomas has the story.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/29/what-it-really-means-to-move-a-body-at-mountainview-cemetery/feed/ 5 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/28/native-american-child-adoption-law-presents-extra-challenges-for-taxed-system/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/28/native-american-child-adoption-law-presents-extra-challenges-for-taxed-system/#comments Tue, 28 May 2013 18:21:42 +0000 Lauren Kawana http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=96770 In Alameda County, while 38 percent of Native American foster children were placed with families, 30 percent were placed in non-Indian homes. Only 3 percent were placed with Native American families other than their own.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/05/28/native-american-child-adoption-law-presents-extra-challenges-for-taxed-system/feed/ 3 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/30/memorial-held-for-transgender-woman-killed-last-year/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/30/memorial-held-for-transgender-woman-killed-last-year/#comments Tue, 30 Apr 2013 20:00:07 +0000 Madeleine Thomas http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=96041 One year ago, Brandy Martell was fatally shot in downtown Oakland. On Monday, the one-year anniversary of her death, a candlelight vigil was held at Franklin and 13th, the scene of Martell’s murder.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/30/memorial-held-for-transgender-woman-killed-last-year/feed/ 1 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/19/childrens-hospital-doctor-talks-oaklands-violence-trauma-consequences/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/19/childrens-hospital-doctor-talks-oaklands-violence-trauma-consequences/#comments Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:00:14 +0000 Debora Silva http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=95544 Allison Briscoe-Smith, the director of the Center for the Vulnerable Child at Children’s Hospital in Oakland, sees consequences in Oakland’s violence that extend far beyond the victims to become a public health issue for the entire community.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/19/childrens-hospital-doctor-talks-oaklands-violence-trauma-consequences/feed/ 1 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/03/oakland-seniors-team-up-with-district-associations-to-make-it-easier-to-get-around/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/03/oakland-seniors-team-up-with-district-associations-to-make-it-easier-to-get-around/#comments Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:00:13 +0000 Vanessa Rancaño http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=94929 A group of seniors in Oakland's Gold Coast neighborhood is collaborating with the local district associations to tackle issues the affect the senior community. ]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/03/oakland-seniors-team-up-with-district-associations-to-make-it-easier-to-get-around/feed/ 1 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/02/after-the-raid-one-year-after-federal-agents-raided-oaksterdam-whats-changed/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/02/after-the-raid-one-year-after-federal-agents-raided-oaksterdam-whats-changed/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2013 16:00:17 +0000 Madeleine Thomas http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=94836 One year ago, federal agents raided Oaksterdam University, a move that sent ripples throughout Oakland’s well-established cannabis industry and raised questions about the complex and often conflicting web of state and federal regulations surrounding medical marijuana use and patient rights. In this four-part series, Oakland North will examine what’s changed since last year’s raid, who was affected the most, and what may lie in store for medical marijuana use here in Oakland.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/04/02/after-the-raid-one-year-after-federal-agents-raided-oaksterdam-whats-changed/feed/ 5 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/03/27/debora-silva-caheri/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/03/27/debora-silva-caheri/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:41:52 +0000 Debora Silva http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=96718 Oakland, California, is considered one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Reporter Débora Silva followed an Oakland resident whose first-hand experience with gun violence dramatically changed her life.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/03/27/debora-silva-caheri/feed/ 4 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/03/21/ousd-votes-to-revoke-american-indian-model-schools-charters/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/03/21/ousd-votes-to-revoke-american-indian-model-schools-charters/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 22:53:04 +0000 Nausheen Husain http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=94194 At a long-awaited special school board meeting, and after over six months of hearings and notices, Oakland Unified School District board members voted to revoke the three American Indian Model Schools’ (AIMS) charters. The 4-3 vote came after Superintendent Tony Smith recommended the board revoke the charters, and after a particularly emotional and dramatic series of public comments and discussion.]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/03/21/ousd-votes-to-revoke-american-indian-model-schools-charters/feed/ 2 http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/03/21/gutierrez-debora-silva-draft/ http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/03/21/gutierrez-debora-silva-draft/#comments Thu, 21 Mar 2013 18:00:45 +0000 Debora Silva http://oaklandnorth.net/?p=94546 In a Castlemont High School classroom converted into a theater for the day, seven-year-old Junior returned home from school to face his parents after receiving a bad report card. “How the hell did you get an ‘F’ in English?” the father asked. “Are you stupid?” Junior kept his head down. “You should act like a man,” the father said. And that’s where Caheri Gutierrez, a 23-year-old woman who has dedicated...]]> http://oaklandnorth.net/2013/03/21/gutierrez-debora-silva-draft/feed/ 2